Scene Here: ‘Yo, My Belly Button is a Pool’ – Midnight Ultimate at Wal-Mart
I was confident I would find no Ultimate Frisbee going on as I drove into the Wal-Mart plaza in Chicopee shortly after midnight early last Friday — I figured the pouring rain and flood warnings would deter the pick-up players that valleyultimate.org told me gather...
CD Short: Mikey Sweet, The North King
Mikey Sweet The North King (Independent) Mikey Sweet may have grown up in the Valley, but his debut album, The North King, tells us he’s been places. Songs like “Driftwood” illicit images of a boy and his guitar and the road, and song titles like “Oklahoma Wind” show...
Gotta Dance: Settling for less than the dancing of my dreams in the Pioneer Valley
I just wanna dance. The itch comes in the form of a restlessness you’d think I could scratch with a good run, but I’ve tried and it doesn’t quite work. The need to dance comes from the soul as much as from the body. It’s like a primordial drive to shake and sway to...
Racism in the Press: America’s democracy hinges on open dialogue, but where’s the line?
The backlash was swift and the sorry-not-sorry was predictable in the fallout from the Berkshire Eagle’s decision to print a racist column, “Here’s the solution for black America,” which continues to unfold. On June 13 the Berkshire Eagle, based in Pittsfield,...E-Edition
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